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HR 1201 111th Congress House Transportation and Public Works Administrative law and regulatory procedures Aviation and airports Department of Transportation Emergency medical services and trauma care Transportation safety and security

Air Medical Safety Act

Introduced: February 25, 2009 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 26, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Feb 25, 2009
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Feb 25, 2009
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Air Medical Safety Act - Requires a pilot of an aircraft providing emergency medical services, whenever there is a medical crew on board, regardless of whether there are patients on board, to comply with federal safety operating requirements governing commuter and on demand operations as well as persons on board aircraft.

Requires the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to: (1) initiate a rulemaking to establish a standardized checklist of risk evaluation factors which shall be used by pilots of aircraft providing emergency medical service to determine whether a mission should be accepted; and (2) initiate a collaborative effort with the air medical community to establish performance-based flight dispatch procedures for such pilots and to develop a method to measure compliance with such procedures.

Requires the Administrator to initiate and complete: (1) a feasibility study of requiring flight data and cockpit voice recorders on new and existing aircraft used for emergency medical service operations; and (2) a rulemaking to require such devices on board such aircraft.

What's happening now February 26, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.

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